., investors are preparing for friday's jobs report and barack obama and mitt romney are hunkering down for debate prep. the two candidates square off in colorado wednesday. today is monday, october 1st, 2012, and "squawk box" begins right now. >> good morning. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen an andrew ross sorkin. the dow is almost within 5% of itl-